xx. 75; Art Journal (1872), 255; Im neuen Reich (1872), ii. 522; (1873), 271; Jordan (1885), ii. 141; Kunst-Chronik, viii. 521, 537; Rosenberg, Berl. Malersch., 142.
MAGRATH, WILLIAM, born in Ireland
in 1835. Landscape and figure painter.
Studied and practised art in America.
Elected an A.N.A. in 1874, and N.A. in
1876. Painted in London in 1883. Studio
in Washington. Works in oil: Road to
Kenmair (1870); Reveille (1871); Empty
Flagon (1873); Rustic Courtship, Contentment
(1876); Girl Spinning, Paddy's Pets
(1877); Adirondack Slopes (1878); Courtyard
with Donkey, F. Harper, New York;
First Proposal, Gardener, T. B. Clarke, ib.;
On the Old Sod (1879); Interesting Item
(1883); Sop for Neddy (1884). Water-colours:
Wilds of Connemara; Irish Interior—Girl
Spinning Yarn; Dairy Maid; Fisherman's
Daughter; Grandfather's Pets
(Charles Stewart Smith, New York), Mussel-Gatherers
(Robert Gordon, ib.), Nora,
Irish Thatched Cottage, On the Hillside
(1876); Rue d'Epicurie and the Cathedral
at Rouen, La Grosse Horloge—Rouen
(1884); Recreation (1885); "Ah! Rory, be
aisey, don't taze me no more!" (1886).
MAHLKNECHT, JOSEF ANTON, born
at St. Ulrich, Gröden, Tyrol, about 1834,
died in Munich, April 6, 1869. History and
portrait painter, pupil of Munich Academy
under Philipp Foltz and Johann Schraudolph,
then in Vienna of Führich; spent
eight months in Venice in 1858, and then
some time in Rome; went to Munich again
about 1862. Works: Christ blessing Little
Children (1858); Philemon and Baucis; St.
Notburga feeding the Poor (1863); Philippine
Welser with her Children before Emperor
Ferdinand at Prague, Portrait of
Professor Pichler (1854), do. of the Sculptor
Dominik Mahlknecht, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck.—Allgem.
d. Biogr., xx. 96; Wurzbach,
xvi. 283.
MAHU, CORNELIS, born at Antwerp in
1613, died there, Nov. 15, 1689. Flemish
school; still-life painter, master of the Antwerp
guild in 1638. Works: Bumper with
Lobster, Fruit, etc. (1648), Berlin Museum;
similar subject, Ghent Museum.—Van den
Branden, 1112.
MAID AND MAGPIE, Sir Edwin Landseer,
National Gallery, London; canvas, H.
5 ft. 8 in. × 4 ft. 11 in. A milkmaid, milking
a cow in a shed, is so intent upon what a
young man behind her is saying that she
does not observe that a magpie is carrying
off a silver spoon placed in one of two wooden
shoes by her side. Scene from the tale
of "The Maid and The Magpie," which Rossini
has made the subject of his opera of
"La Gazza Ladra." Royal Academy, 1858;
bequeathed by Jacob Bell in 1859. Engraved
by S. Cousins.—Cat. Nat. Gal.;
Stephens, 97; Wornum, Epochs.
MAIDS OF HONOUR. See Meninas, Las.
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MAIGNAN, ALBERT, born at Beaumont
(Sarthe); contemporary.
History and
landscape painter,
pupil of Noël and
Luminais. Medals:
3d class, 1874; 2d
class, 1876; 1st class,
1879; L. of Honour,
1883. Works:
Sailing of the Norman
Fleet (1874); Insulting the Prisoners
(1875, scene from Albigensian Crusade);
Frederick Barbarossa at the Feet of the
Pope (1876); Christ the Comforter (1878);
Louis IX. consoling a Leper (1878), Angers
Museum; Christ and the Afflicted (1879);
Death of Chlodobert (1880); Dante meeting
Countess Matilda (1881), Luxembourg Museum;
Abandoned Woman, Fra Angelico's
Dream (1882); Paying Homage to Clovis II.,
Admiral Carlo Zeno (1883); William the
Conqueror
(1885);
Assault on
Pope Boniface
VIII. at Agnani, New York Museum.—Bellier,
ii. 10; Müller, 348; La Ilustracion
(1882), i. 347.